Newly Engaged Kit Harington And Rose Leslie Are Distant Relatives

The newly-engaged Game of Thrones lovebirds Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are in fact ‘related’ according to one fan’s bit of research.

In possibly the most British way ever, the couple announced their engagement with a notice in the Times newspaper.

It read:

Mr K.C. Harington and Miss R.E. Leslie: The engagement is announced between Kit, younger son of David and Deborah Harington of Worcestershire, and Rose, middle daughter of Sebastian and Candy Leslie of Aberdeenshire.

Upon learning this news, one Twitter-user did a bit of digging – and I use this term loosely – she went on Wikipedia and found a little something.

It looks like detective Sophie has discovered Kit and Rose actually share a royal relative, Charles II of England. How very Westerosi of them.

Harington told Vogue Italia that the pair fell in love while filming and he recalled his time filming season two in Iceland as his favourite memory of the show.

He explained:

Because the country is beautiful, because the Northern Lights are magical, and because it was there that I fell in love. If you’re already attracted to someone, and then they play your love interest in the show, it’s becomes very easy to fall in love.

The couple live together in a mansion in East Anglia worth £1.75 million.

Kit told James Corden back in June:

I’ve moved in with my other best friend Rose, so I’m very happy.

It’s going well, so she’s got all sorts of ideas for the house.

I said to her, cause she’s moved into my house, ‘Look darling, it’s important that this is our space. That it feels like our space. That you haven’t just moved into mine. Move anything you want around, change anything, chuck anything out’.